{"id":2502576,"date":"2026-07-15T05:04:52","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2502576"},"modified":"2026-07-15T05:04:52","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T05:04:52","slug":"entertainment-and-environmentalism-6-events-to-attend-in-the-austin-area-july-17-19-central-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/entertainment-and-environmentalism-6-events-to-attend-in-the-austin-area-july-17-19-central-austin\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment and environmentalism: 6 events to attend in the Austin area July 17-19 | Central Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"

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There\u2019s something for everyone this weekend in the Austin area, including a free summer music festival, World Environment Day celebrations and outdoor production of \u201cSingin\u2019 in the Rain.\u201d Here are six events for locals to attend from July 17-19.<\/p>\n

This list is not comprehensive. All events are subject to change.<\/p>\n

Zilker Theatre Productions \u201cSingin\u2019 in the Rain\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n

Zilker Theatre Productions will host its 67th annual summer show, \u201cSingin\u2019 in the Rain\u201d at Zilker Hillside Theatre. The family-friendly production is free and open to the public every Thursday-Sunday.<\/p>\n

Hot Summer Nights <\/strong><\/div>\n

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The Red River Cultural District will host its annual free summer music festival with performances at Chess Club, Kingdom, Stubb\u2019s, Swan Dive and more. The festival will also include a Hot Summer Night Market on July 18 at Liberty Lunch by Future Front Texas.<\/p>\n

Party for the Planet<\/strong><\/p>\n

The family-friendly event celebrates World Environment Day. There will be a DJ, a foam party, environmental education and crafts.<\/p>\n

Kids Day at Community Gardens<\/strong><\/p>\n

Geared toward kids having fun, the day will include a foam party, dunk tank, waterslides, snacks and more.<\/p>\n

Artemis Generation: NASA\u2019s Next Giant Leap<\/strong><\/p>\n

Guests can learn about Nasa\u2019s Artemis program and the future of human exploration on the moon, presented by NASA specialist Tyler Hines.<\/p>\n

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  • July 18, 1-2:30 p.m.<\/li>\n
  • Free<\/li>\n
  • 200 E. Liberty Ave., Round Rock<\/li>\n
  • www.roundrocktexas.gov<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    From Balconies to Backyards<\/strong><\/div>\n

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    Hosted by the Good Water Master Naturalist Chapter, the 2026 event will have the theme \u201cTaking care of what you have,\u201d and feature keynote speaker John Hart Asher, host of the Austin PBS Central Texas Gardener show. Topics include coexisting with minifauna, climate resilience and doing less for more birds and butterflies.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

    \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

    \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source communityimpact.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    There\u2019s something for everyone this weekend in the Austin area, including a free summer music festival, World Environment Day celebrations and outdoor production of \u201cSingin\u2019 in the Rain.\u201d Here are six events for locals to attend from July 17-19. This list is not comprehensive. All events are subject to change. Zilker Theatre Productions \u201cSingin\u2019 in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2502577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[22801,451938,493159,22034,493160,476579,316032,482083,368411,348662,493158,493157],"class_list":["post-2502576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-austin","tag-bastrop","tag-community-gardens","tag-events","tag-good-water-master-naturalist-chapter","tag-hot-summer-nights","tag-new-braunfels","tag-red-river-cultural-district","tag-round-rock","tag-weekend-events","tag-world-environment-day","tag-zilker-theatre"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Entertainment-and-environmentalism-6-events-to-attend-in-the-Austin.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2502576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502578,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2502576\/revisions\/2502578"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2502577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2502576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2502576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2502576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}